9 December 2024

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

 

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2003)

  • Director: Marc Webb
  • Seen by this director: 500 Days of Summer
  • Based on book: no
  • Cast: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Sally Field, Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan
  • Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
    • Andrew Garfield – Under the Silver Lake, Breathe, Hacksaw Ridge, Social Network, Never Let Me Go, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnasus, Red Riding x3, Boy A, Doctor Who
    • Emma Stone – Zombieland +Double Tap, The Favourite, La La Land, Birdman, The Help, Crazy Stupid Love
    • Jamie Foxx – Django Unchained, The Soloist, Dream Girls, Miami Vice, Jarhead, Ray
    • Dane DeHaan – Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Lincoln, The Place Beyond the Pines
    • Sally Fields - Many
  • Why? Andrew Garfield
  • Seen:  7 December 2024.      

       It’s not the story that matters, it’s the characters. Peter/Spiderman (Garfield) is haunted by being abandoned by his parents, torn between his love for Gwen (Stone) and his promise to her dying father to stay away from her. Grace is frustrated over their on-again, off-again love affair and eager to continue her science education with a scholarship to Oxford. Max (Foxx) is a geeky electricity genius, ignored by everybody, seen by none, longing for friendship and recognition, transformed by accident into an electric monster – if you can’t love me, fear me. Harry (DeHaan) is Peter’s best friend since childhood, now heir to the Oscorp empire and Peter’s parents’ research, and dying.

       Great cast. Strong film. Up among the best of Marvel. 

4* of 5

 

 

 

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